[Beowulf] Fwd: Project Natick

[Chris Samuel]

On Friday, 8 June 2018 1:38:11 AM AEST John Hearns via Beowulf wrote:

> The report interestingly makes a comparison to cruise lines and the US Navy
> having large IT infrastructures at sea.

Some oil & gas companies have HPC systems onboard their survey vessels to
process data at sea.   One example from Australia:

https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/01/08/hpc-optimizes-energy-exploration-oil-gas-startups/

# DUG provides hardware and software to marine geophysical company Polarcus*,
# fitting out its fleet of seagoing vessels for marine seismic data acquisition.
# Dr. Stuart Midgley, DUG’s systems architect, notes that space is very
# limited on each vessel, so the onboard supercomputing system must be
# extremely powerful for data processing and imaging, yet consume minimal
# electrical power and occupy a limited footprint.

cheers.
Chris
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